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hospitals present the best possible opportunities for propagating divine truth, amongst the people. There are at least constantly set before their inmates, proofs such as they can and do fully appreciate of the existence of that cha- rity, which is the best fruit of our holy religion, and may thus be led to in- quire about its source.
5. Many persons well qualified to form an opinion on the subject, who have been eye witnesses of the operations of the Society, have borne the strongest testimony in their favor as being conducted in a manner the best calculated to lead to the results which are contemplated.
Examination of the school of the Morrison Education Society.—On Wednesday, the 22d inst., a public examination of this school was held at the residence of the Rev. S. R. Brown, its tutor; and being the first opportunity of the kind that has been afforded to the friends of the Society, to observe the progress of the boys under its patronage, it was an occasion of much interest, and deserves a more extended notice than we can now give it. We cannot, however, suffer the impression which the sceue made upon our minds to pass, without a brief statement of the exercises, since they afforded unequivocal evidence of the utility of the local Society under whose auspices that school is conducted.
The examination opened at half-past 12 o'clock, when the pupils, sixteen in number, entered the room, neatly attired, and with cheer- ful faces, indicating that they were pleased with the prospective trial of their attainments in English learning.
Mr. Brown commenced by giving a brief account of the school, mentioning the periods of time that the boys had been at school, and the changes and interruptions which the political troubles in Chi- na had produced; and said, that the examination had been proposed for the purpose of showing the patrons of the Society, to what they were lending their support, when they made donations to the Morrison Education Society, while it might at the same time operate as a stimulus to the pupils, who, like their fellow-men, are encouraged by the recognition of their own merits, when conscious of them them- selves. He alluded to the fact that, according to the plan of the So- ciety, half of the time in school is devoted to the study of the native language, so as to combine Chinese and English learning, and there- fore, in forining an estimate of the boys' progress, it was but just to recollect that the younger class of teu, who had been in the school seven months, had studied English but three months and a half, and the elder class, who had spent two years and a half at school, had
really studied English but a year and a quarter.
The smaller boys were then examined in reading English spelling
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